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Skunk · 03-31-2003, 06:40 AM

"One way is to march straight to Baghdad, blowing up everything in your way and then by shock and awe you cause the regime to collapse," Pike says. "That is what Rumsfeld is complaining about when he talks about unimaginative plodding. The alternative is to bypass the Iraqi forces and deliver a decisive blow."

-- Quoting John Pike, John Pike, the head of GlobalSecurity.org, a military thinktank in Washington from an article in Sept 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0...786992,00.html

Seems like they tried to combine the two tactics - and came up with a very weak hybrid.

The problem according to Lt. Gen. William S. Wallace an interview with the Washington Post is:
"The enemy we're fighting is different from the one we'd war-gamed against,"
But the reality was that they had wargamed this enemy and, as the article above suggests - refused to accept the results.

[ 03-31-2003, 06:45 AM: Message edited by: Skunk ]

03-31-2003, 06:40 AM	#3
Skunk Banned User Join Date: September 3, 2001 Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Age: 63 Posts: 1,463	"One way is to march straight to Baghdad, blowing up everything in your way and then by shock and awe you cause the regime to collapse," Pike says. "That is what Rumsfeld is complaining about when he talks about unimaginative plodding. The alternative is to bypass the Iraqi forces and deliver a decisive blow." -- Quoting John Pike, John Pike, the head of GlobalSecurity.org, a military thinktank in Washington from an article in Sept 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0...786992,00.html Seems like they tried to combine the two tactics - and came up with a very weak hybrid. The problem according to Lt. Gen. William S. Wallace an interview with the Washington Post is: "The enemy we're fighting is different from the one we'd war-gamed against," But the reality was that they had wargamed this enemy and, as the article above suggests - refused to accept the results. [ 03-31-2003, 06:45 AM: Message edited by: Skunk ]